Sara Salamon is the new artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude
As part of the artist exchange program at Akademie Schloss Solitude, visual artist Sara Salamon was selected for a residence at this prestigious institution for 3 months.
Akademie Schloss Solitude is a renowned German institution that has been implementing a program of international transdisciplinary residencies since 1990, through which it has connected more than 1,400 young artists from over 120 countries.
The exchange of artists with Akademie Schloss Solitude takes place within the Eastern European network that Akademie Schloss Solitude began to build in 2002, and since 2009, through a partnership with Pogon, Croatia is also a participant. Candidates for residency in Stuttgart are selected through a public call that Pogon announces once a year. Based on the applications received, the Residency Council, assembled by Pogon, selects three potential candidates for the shortlist. The final selection is made by Akademie Schloss Solitude, and Sara Salamon was selected for 2024.
Sara Salamon (Rijeka, Croatia, 1991) works in the fields of various artistic practices, as a visual artist, film editor and director of photography. In her work she is trying to betray the media. She is inspired by collective wilderness and shifting realities. She finds special interest in public space, specific locations and weird media connections.
She received awards for collaborative projects (35th Salon mladih, 55th Zagreb salon...), and
participated in residency programs such as Q21, MuseumQuartier in Vienna and Bergen Center for Electronic Art (Norway) as part of Future DiverCities 2019. She is a member of the informal collectives M28 and Platforma za eksperiment, and most often
collaborates with Hrvoje Spudić. Salamon mastered Media Arts and Practices at the Academy of Applied Arts in Rijeka in 2015.
